Spa GAA held their Cairde Spa fundraising draw on Thursday February 2nd at the clubhouse surrounded by club members and the local community. The fundraiser, the first major club draw to be held in Spa in over ten years, had some amazing prizes up for grabs and gained huge support from all corners.

On the night, the club were also delighted to have the opportunity to welcome President of the GAA Larry McCarthy, Provincial Council of Britain President Noel O’Sullivan and Kerry GAA Chairman Patrick O’Sullivan.

Cairde Spa was first launched in September 2022 with the aim of raising funds for new and ongoing projects at the club. As with most clubs and organisations, the pandemic put a halt to many projects and delayed plans that were in the pipeline, but now the club have the chance to continue building and developing for the next generation, creating an environment that will be for the benefit of all ages.

The response has been fantastic and with the incredible support of the community, both near and far, the draw has been a great success and the club can continue with the developments plans that were outlined. While the walking track has been a wonderful recent addition to the facilities, the projects on the agenda include layout of a new car park, lighting around the walking track, an outdoors skills wall for the players, dressing rooms for the juvenile and ladies teams, new safety features, dugouts, a new scoreboard, perimeter fencing around the pitches, a remembrance garden and more.

There were 10 winners in the draw, and congratulations to each and every one of them –

1st Prize : €15,000

Pa, Evelyn & Noah Murphy

2nd Prize: €3,000

Laurna Mulcahy

3rd Prize: €2,000

Sean & Marian Moynihan

4th Prize: €1,000

Dave Herlihy

5th Prize: 2 Nights Dinner, Bed & Breakfast at the Killarney Park Hotel

Tim O’Connor

6th Prize: €500 Voucher for Killarney Carpet & Furniture Centre

Denis Kelly

7th Prize: €300 Voucher for O’Sullivan’s Cycles

Adrian Slane

8th Prize: €250 Voucher for Killarney Oils

Ger & James Lyne

9th Prize: €150 Voucher for Killarney Hardware

Paul Russell

10th Prize: Signed Kerry Jersey from Kerry GAA Store

Noel O’Sullivan

A huge thank you to everyone who has rowed in and supported the draw and helped the club in every way during this event. To the Club Fundraising committee, Chairman Michael Cronin, our sponsors and to all those who distributed, advertised, sold and purchased tickets over the past few months, to MC Ger Galvin who did a brilliant job as always, to Anne Holland for her wonderful photos and to all our hard-working and dedicated volunteers who keep the show going, míle buíochas to all.

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